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Coo, at last, the completely excellent Lara Croft & The Guardian Of Light has online co-op. Quite how it didn’t ship with this feature – something pretty essential to its core design – is a mystery. But it’s finally there now, and since you’ll have bought it via Steam it’ll automagically update the next time you load the grey gaming window. This’ll let you play the game with a chum, which I’d rather like to do now please. There’s also a few other tweaks, including graphical and audible improvements, refining of both mouse/keyboard and controller input, and general stability. So good!

I got the same impresson from the damn jumping-between-blocks bit in the demo, but having bought the game and retrieved my gamepad, I decided quickly that mouse and keyboard is much better. The only bits you need precision jumping are that one bit in the first level and some rotating platforms later, and for the rest of the game mouse-aiming is way better than having to use a toggle button to activate your guns.

Seems like the demo still doesn’t include online co-op though, or am I missing it? It’s just that I wouldn’t mind buying it just on the promise of online co-op fun, but I’d have to convince a friend to do the same and that will be hard if I can’t at least have a test run with him/her…

Buy the game and have your friend over to play same PC coop. They will like it so much they will purchace their own copy and you can play on your own PC’s from then on. Though I personally find it the most fun to play together on the same PC. Something about being able to actually punch someone next to you when they make fun of your lack of jumping ability . . .

Hm, not sure if I want to even bother with this now. Having expected the game to have online coop from the start, I was very disappointed by the half-lie. And playing the single player after having just finished the super excellent Blade Kitten, it felt really mediocre and I quit after the first chapter.

Online co-op, essential? Hardly. This is a game that thrives on local play. Shouting and pointing and gesturing wildly and elbowing your buddy in the ribs when they decide to let go of the grappling hook when you’re dangling over a bloody great spike-pit are all key parts of the experience.

Not all of us are blessed with real life friends who game. But your right, this is so much fun when your sitting next to each other. We were constantly shouting at each other, in a good way. Rarely do I find myself actually discussing the game itself so much in a coop session.

Had a friend up for the weekend recently, so bought this on a whim. Was awesome fun local, and will be really glad to be able to share it over t’internets.
Went back to do a couple of challenges SP – puzle design is really uninspiring in single player it seems.

This game has mouse glitch in PC online coop game mode. Your teammate it his pc can’t see where you point, it show that you always shoot to back :). It is ok if you use gamepad, but if you use keyboard and gamepad then that glitch ruine the game.

I must put forward that playing this game locally with a friend next to you is way better if you get the chance. I know sometimes that’s not practical and the online is a necessary feature, but games like this really just work a whole lot better if you’re in the room with someone.

It’s a nice game so far, the controls are a bit tricky at times but I think its just I’m not use to this type of game. I never played a Lara game before, I just remember watching my dad play it long time ago. Anyways I saw the online feature, I can never see any games in it. Is it just dead, or am I just doing something wrong? atm I’m assuming the first, because it doesn’t seem to be that popular of a game, I didn’t hear about it till it went on sale for 7.50 on steam. It still would strike me as odd that there are no games running.